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Four primroses blooming in containers right now: the red ones, first and fourth, are Primula eliator ‘Gold Lace’ aka bumblebee primrose and the other two which I grew from seed started in 2020 are Primula auricula, an alpine species. I feel like I could so easily become completely obsessed with growing as many kinds of these as possible. They are, as I’ve heard said of some kinds of food, more-ish!

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Detail from a walk. Maybe I’m losing it but everything looked so lovely yesterday.

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Little garden area at my favorite place in town. That’s a weeping apple tree (I think the only one I’ve ever seen) and will be covered with bloom by next week but even now this looks so cottagecore.

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Some may be surprised to see him on my blog but—THIS!

sun gift

VERY EXCITED FOR TODAY. this sun has trotted up again and given us another chance to prove love. CANT WAIT TO GET OUT THERE AND TAKE THIS CHANCE. WHAT A GIFT. LETS TROT

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Little woodland things.

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The front garden is leaping up!

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View from near the dog park this morning. It’s that exquisite time of year.

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Along the fence at sunrise.

That apple tree tho

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More garden detail featuring variegated Solomon seal, golden ragwort, common violets, kidney leaf buttercup, and a tiny bit of hosta ‘June’.

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Lilacs.

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Happy Earth Day!

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Earth Day morning sights from my walk this morning. <3 (I would say the Earth is my beloved but you have to watch what you say around here or you could end up in a Tingler. haha)

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hello! I saw your post about your slipper orchid hybrid, and I was wondering if you know what types of slipper orchid it’s hybridized from??

Yes, it's violascens and vietnamense.

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Stream through the woods.

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Good morning!

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I bought this plant a year ago, a hybrid of two very different slipper orchids. Flowers of this hybrid vary a lot and aren’t always even nice to look at. It’s preparing to bloom now and the suspense is building!

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Mother Earth Season

Earth Day is tomorrow so here is my annual post. It's long but I mean it with all my heart. Everything we are, everything we own, everything that makes up our family, our lovers, our pets, our houses, ships at sea, planes in the air, shopping centers, factories, cities, computers, and, of course, all of the diversity and glory of nature, comes from the Earth. We have Earth Day, when we talk about problems with the Earth and try to fix them, but it's time for us to celebrate the beauty, glory, and nurturing of the Earth and show our thanks for this source of everything. Let's celebrate the time between Earth Day and the day the U.S. celebrates as Mothers Day as Mother Earth Season, a time to look at, appreciate, and celebrate everything wonderful and amazing about the earth and the living things on it. Find wonderful things in nature and show them to other people. Take an older person out of the nursing home for a picnic or a drive through the woods. Tell children stories of remarkable and beautiful places, animals, plants, or events in nature that you saw before they were born. Give nature parties, play nature-related music, dance, paint pictures, write poems, share photographs about nature and, most of all, take walks. Get up early to see the sunrise light on everything and take pictures, or not, find out when and where to see the Pleiades rise and set. Look at the landscape from hills, take paths along streams and into glens. Sit in a beautiful place with someone you love or sit and remember deeply someone you loved. Take it all in and share it with others! Most of all, take time to feel happy to be alive on this beautiful earth and let yourself feel wonder. Feel the joy of being on this living planet. Tell the Earth how amazing she is and that you're glad she's given you this time here. If these were your last days, what would you want to say to this, your home and source that gave you everything you've ever known, including your self? As Mister Eckhart said, "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." And as Rumi is quoted, "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."